Tools to facilitate establishment of collaborations

This topic seemed like an overarching theme, so I pulled all related ideas out of the overall list. Numbers in brackets indicate which step of the research cycle they came from. - BC 14:10, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

A way of conducting semantic research of articles and a way of extracting info from them

Background Research -> Experimentation (3.5)

Open funding and microfunding. Outsourcing in a lab. Lab needs resources, can plug into a microfunding model or network

A way to ask research questions and find the right people who can answer

Experimentation (4)

Standardized interfaces for controlling instrumentation via OWW

A reward system for amateur researchers

Consensus protocols: Standardized versions of protocols that are easy to find and free;

Different kinds of protocols and methods that provide information and how-tos for all phases and aspects of research;

Better ways of getting your activities out in the world; subscribe to your colleagues’ work;

Community building in the experimental cycle; example is a feed of “everyone else who’s using this protocol.”

Analysis (6)

An easy way to integrate your data into other people’s data sets

Publishing Cycle (8-11)

A way to apply peer review earlier than the publication phase; rolling, cycle-wide peer review; PR at the idea stage

(Dotted line to …)

Mechanism for capturing the value of negative results; collecting all the stuff that doesn’t make it into the paper like peer review; deleted scenes, the director’s cut; alternate endings

Implement CVS for publication: from submission to publication;

Design a publication process where the author has control; a centralized document with continuous version control. (As you hit a point in the review process should be less back and forth between you and the publisher, fewer publication delays.)

Build tools for writing: Drew envisions “A sea of unreviewed manuscripts” where the editor comes to you. A manuscript marketplace. Allows for …

feedback on rougher manuscripts

less stigma for having an error

Metric of error correction for each publication – finer-grained metrics

Publication -> Ideas (11->1)

Research is not conducted in vacuum; there’s a need to couple conclusions and publications with the next set of questions.

Need a mechanism for going from a publication back into to the idea pool

Need a mechanism for others (possibly nonresearchers) to pose questions, problems, ideas for research